Site Update

A major site update was posted today, and while you may not notice the change immediately, there are a number of impactful changes.

The first is removing support for Google Reader since it no longer exists, but that's mostly about syncing and importing feeds since feed fetching and parsing has always been handled separately.

The second major change is one you'll notice when marking page read. Instead of losing the status of the previous page, marking paged read will still take the expected action, but will also advance a page with the previous one(s) being cached locally. This will be particularly helpful if you need to go back to correct a mistake.

Another benefit of these changes is improved performance. The new paging methodology prevents preloads from getting invalidated as frequently so the data that is needed will still be on hand. Performance is also improved through some Javascript optimizations to reduce the number of DOM lookups, although some slower processors can sometimes take a little longer to save current item states before turning a page.

GPUs are now used for animations so those should be smoother than previously.

Viewing a Similar Items page and returning to the previous feed is now much faster too. When selecting the Return to Previous Feed link it will load all of the previous data instead of refetching it from the server.

The same is also true when emailing a story. And on the topic of sharing, that menu now scrolls up over the item's content instead of expanding down.

That about does it other than bug fixes and other minor changes that I won't call you individually. We hope you enjoy the new site and we'll continue to work on further improvements.

This will be particularly

This will be particularly helpful if you need to go back to correct a mistake. - Scott Safadi

Navigation

j/k selects the next/previous item in the list
n/p in title view, selects the next item without opening it
space/shift+space moves to the next/previous page
shift+m open/close the main menu
shift+o open/close the options menu
enter select the highlight entry from a menu

Actions

enter,o in title view, expands or collapses the selected item
shift+a marks all items in the current page as read
d go to the item's list of similar stories
i/u designate the item as interesting/not interesting
m marks the item as read or unread
s adds or removes a star from the selected item
shift+s open/close the item's share menu
shift+u marks all items in the current page as unread
v opens the original source for the item in a new tab

Go To a New Page

g then h go to the homepage
g then i go to the Interesting items view
g then a go to the All items view
g then s go to the Saved items view
g then p go to the Popular items view
g then f go to the Select a Feed page

Application

- decrease the font size
= increase the font size
esc close any menu if open, otherwise deselect all items
? open/close a decription of keyboard shortcuts